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Marianna Klar

Scholar of Quranic narrative in its late-antique literary contexts.

Ninth-century North African Qur'an folio with Sura 54:13–27. It illustrates later manuscript transmission, not Dhul Qarnayn's passage or Marianna Klar. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.39.2.a
Ninth-century North African Qur'an folio with Sura 54:13–27. It illustrates later manuscript transmission, not Dhul Qarnayn's passage or Marianna Klar. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.39.2.aCleveland Museum of Art, 1993.39.2.a, CC0 · CC0Related reference

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Marianna Klar researches Quranic narrative. In 2020 she published a chapter on Quranic exempla and late-antique narratives in The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies. Her subject draws attention to a story’s function within the QuranQuranCentral text of Islam, used here as evidence of its religious discourse.Glossary · Click to read the explanation as well as its similarities to earlier narratives. Only the chapter page and abstract were consulted here, not the full chapter; specific unread conclusions are not attributed to her. [1]

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